Research Assistant May 2006 March 2011 Research topics: Modular Software Architecture, Software Systems

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1 JAN S. RELLERMEYER IBM Research Austin Research Lab Burnet Rd. Austin, TX Cedar St. Austin, TX RESEARCH EXPERIENCE IBM Research, Future Systems Group, Austin, TX Research Staff Member April 2011 present Research topics: Mobile Enterprise Systems, Future Cloud Systems, Language Runtime Systems on Modern Hardware. Microsoft Research, extreme Computing Group, Redmond, WA Research Intern July October 2010 Research topic: Operating System Architecture and Power Management on the Intel SCC (RockCreek). ETH Zurich, Systems Group, Switzerland EDUCATION Research Assistant May 2006 March 2011 Research topics: Modular Software Architecture, Software Systems ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Ph.D. in Computer Science, March 2011 Thesis Title: Modularity as a Systems Design Principle ETH Zurich, Switzerland, MSc. in Computer Science, March 2006 Major in Distributed Systems, Minor in Information Systems ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Studied towards diploma degree in Interdisciplinary Natural Sciences Chemistry and Physics AWARDS AND HONORS Invited Researcher of the OSGi Alliance,

2 RESEARCH INTERESTS Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Modular Software, Operating Systems, Language Runtime Systems, Just in Time Compilers RESEARCH PROJECTS IBM Mobile Systems Remote The rise of the app revolution has brought small, simple, and affordable software tools to users for mastering mundane tasks with the help of mobile devices. With the success of the "app" paradigm, there is an increasing demand for applying the same spirit to problems which have traditionally been the domain of enterprise-scale solutions. The "IBM Mobile Systems Remote" (IBM Remote) project aims at providing system management, a traditional enterprise application, for our lines of server products from mobile devices. This application is inherently communication-intensive since the mobile client requires periodical status updates from the monitored machines and the fidelity of the systems management application is a function of the sampling rate. One of the key challenges is therefore to minimize the number of messages that need to be received to still reliably detect failures and receive other relevant information at the mobile device. R-OSGi implements remote services in a completely transparent way and thereby facilitates the turning of modular software into distributed systems. Different to other remote component systems it does not attempt to hide faults arising from network communication errors. R-OSGi instead maps all occurring failures to module and service life-cycle events which OSGi applications are already prepared to handle gracefully. R-OSGi is used in the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF). Concierge is an OSGi technology implementation tailored to and heavily optimized for resourceconstrained devices such as mobile phones or embedded systems. It significantly outperforms other implementations and has a footprint of only 85 kbytes. Concierge is proposed to become the new OSGi framework of the Eclipse Foundation for mobile and embedded systems. Juggle implements a system on top of OSGi to dynamically replace software services by FPGA-powered (reprogrammable) hardware services, in order to speed up prioritized tasks on resource-constrained hardware. Services are co-designed as both software and hardwareaccelerated modules so that the runtime system can choose which service to accelerate. Cirrostratus is a cloud computing runtime to turn conventional software systems into elastic applications and manage their dynamic deployment by exploiting their inherent modular structure. The approach only requires the programmer to structure the application into modules. The runtime system then treats the modules as the units that can be dynamically provisioned, distributed, migrated, and replicated. Cirrostratus performs symbolic code analysis to determine regions of shared state for replication, and to add performance monitoring facilities to the modules. Due to its optimized implementation, Cirrostratus can run even on resource-constrained devices. Parts of my work are supported by the National Center of Competence in Research - Mobile Infor- 2

3 mation and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS), a research instrument of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). The work on the Virtual OSGi Framework is supported by the Microsoft Innovation Cluster for Embedded Software (ICES). PARTICIPATIONS IN SYSTEMS-RELATED PROJECTS Barrelfish is a novel operating system based on the multikernel architecture. It runs a separate kernel per core and kernels by default do not share any data structures. Instead, kernels do very efficient message passing (e.g., over the hyper-transport) to replicate state. My contributions to the Barrelfish project involve a module system consisting of a module compiler written in Haskell, a runtime system written in C and assembler, and a name server as well as initial implementations of different experimental IPC systems written in assembler to define baselines for efficient inter-module communication. XTream, Exoengine The Exoengine is a novel architecture for virtualizing stream processing systems scaling from single machines to data centers. The exoengine architecture incorporates building blocks of existing stream processing systems and compose new applications as libraries to a generic infrastructure. XTream is a prototype implementation of the exoengine architecture using OSGi. My contributions to the project involve work on exploiting the inherent modularity of XTream to achieve large-scale distribution and elastic re-deployment of components. SwissQM is a virtual machine approach for query processing in sensor networks. Query plans are compiled into a distributed deployment of small byte code programs to sample data and forward result tuples within the network. My contribution to the project involves work on the gateway system to deal with the life-cycle of continuous queries. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Head Assistant for undergraduate course Operating Systems and Networks, ETH Zurich, Lectures in graduate course Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures, ETH Zurich, Lecture and Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course Computer Networks, ETH Zurich, Lecture in graduate course Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures, ETH Zurich, Teaching Assistant for graduate course Distributed Systems, ETH Zurich, Lecture in graduate course Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures, ETH Zurich, Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course Computer Networks, ETH Zurich, Lecture and Teaching Assistant for graduate course Distributed Systems, ETH Zurich,

4 Teaching Assistant for graduate course Enterprise Application Integration (Middleware), ETH Zurich, Teaching Assistant for graduate course Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures, ETH Zurich, Teaching Assistant for graduate course Computer Networks, ETH Zurich, Teaching Assistant for graduate course Computer Architecture, ETH Zurich, UNIVERSITY SERVICES Vice President VMI: Vice President of the Association of the Academic Staff at the Department of Computer Science (VMI), ETH Zurich, Representative, Tutitional Committee: Representative in the Tuitional Committee of the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Representative, Departmental Conference: Representative in the Departmental Conference (the executive committee) of the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Board Member VMI: Member of the Board of the Association of the Academic Staff at the Department of Computer Science (VMI), ETH Zurich, IT Coordinator: Coordinating the administration of the IT infrastructure of the Systems Group, ETH Zurich, System Administrator: System Administrator in the IT Support Group of the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, COMMUNITY SERVICE German Red Cross, Oberhausen, Germany, RELATED ACTIVITIES OSGi Core Platform Expert Group Member of the OSGi Alliance CPEG, 2008 present. OSGi Enterprise Expert Group Member of the OSGi Alliance EEG, 2008 present. Author and project leader of the following open-source software projects: Concierge Small footprint, high performance implementation of the OSGi specifications for small and embedded devices. Used by various scientific projects and in the BUG, an embedded device manufactured by the New York-based startup BugLabs. jslp Pure Java implementations of RFC 2608, the Service Location Protocol. Used in several projects and commercial products. 4

5 R-OSGi Pioneered the field of OSGi remote services. Used in various research and opensource projects such as Eclipse ECF and in products such as, e.g., medical systems. Committer to the following software projects of the open-source community: Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF), Apache Directory Server (DS), Barrelfish, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2008, 2009, Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering (TKDE), 2010, Reviewer: Wiley Software Practice and Experience, 2010, External Reviewer: 10th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Urbana Champaign, Illinois, PC Member: 50th Design Automation Conference (DAC), Designer Track, Austin, TX, 2013 Session Chair: 50th Design Automation Conference (DAC), Designer Track, Austin, TX, 2013 Speaker EclipseCon, 2007, 2008, 2012 Oredev, 2007 Eclipse Summit Europe, 2008 OSGi Community Event, 2008 OSGi Developer Congress Europe, 2009 EclipseCon Europe, 2012 Invited Talks Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2013 Cloud4SMB, in conjunction with ITExpo, Austin, TX, 2012 DistriNet Group, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2011 Cloud Futures 2010, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, 2010 Citi Lab, INSA Lyon and INRIA, France, 2010 Magic Lab, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada,

6 Professional Organizations ACM Member (since 2006) ACM SIGOPS Member ACM SIGSOFT Member ACM SIGMOD Member IEEE Member (since 2006) IEEE Computer Society Member EuroSys Member (since 2006) PATENTS Patent pending: US 2012/ Al: Jonathan Ross, Ronald Aigner, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Jork Loeser, Hierarchical Software Locking PUBLICATIONS Jan S. Rellermeyer, Seong-Won Lee, and Michael Kistler. Cloud Platforms and Embedded Computing The Operating Systems of the Future. In DAC 13: 50th Design Automation Conference, Special Session on The Future of Operating Systems for Embedded Systems and Software (ESS), Saurabh Bagchi, Fahad Arshad, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Thomas Osiecki, Michael Kistler, and Ahmed Gheith. Lilliput meets Brobdingnagian: Data Center Systems Management through Mobile Devices. In DCDV 13: Second International Workshop on Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers, and Virtual Machine Technology (in conjunction with DSN 2013), Jan S. Rellermeyer and Saurabh Bagchi. Dependability as a Cloud Service - A Modular Approach. In DCDV 12: Second International Workshop on Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers, and Virtual Machine Technology (in conjunction with DSN 2012), Amiya K. Maji, Fahad A. Arshad, Saurabh Bagchi, and Jan S. Rellermeyer. An Empirical Study of the Robustness of Inter-component Communication in Android. In DSN 12: 42st International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Thomas H. Osiecki, Ernest A. Holloway, Patrick J. Bohrer, and Michael Kistler. System Management with IBM Mobile Systems Remote - A Question of Power and Scale. In MDM 12: Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, Jan S. Rellermeyer and Ramon Kuepfer. Co-Managing Software and Hardware Modules through the Juggle Middleware. In Middleware 11: 12th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference,

7 Jan S. Rellermeyer. Modularity as a Systems Design Principle. Diss. no , ETH Zurich, Michael Duller, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Gustavo Alonso, and Nesime Tatbul. Virtualizing Stream Processing. In Middleware 11: 12th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Michael Duller, and Gustavo Alonso. Engineering the Cloud from Software Modules. In ICSE-Cloud 09: Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges in Cloud Computing (in conjunction with ICSE 2009), Vancouver, Canada, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Oriana Riva, and Gustavo Alonso. AlfredO: An Architecture for Flexible Interaction with Electronic Devices. In Middleware 08: 9th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Leuven, Belgium, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Michael Duller, and Gustavo Alonso. Consistently Applying Updates to Compositions of Distributed OSGi Modules. In HotSWUp 08: Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Software Updates (in conjunction with OOPSLA 2008), Nashville, TN, USA, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Michael Duller, Ken Gilmer, Damianos Maragkos, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, and Gustavo Alonso. The Software Fabric for the Internet of Things. In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Internet of Things, Zurich, Switzerland, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Gustavo Alonso, and Timothy Roscoe. Building, Deploying, and Monitoring Distributed Applications with Eclipse and R-OSGi. In ETX 07: Fifth Eclipse Technology exchange (ETX) Workshop (in conjunction with OOPSLA 2007), Montreal, Canada, Jan S. Rellermeyer and Gustavo Alonso. Concierge: A Service Platform for Resource- Constrained Devices. In EuroSys 07: Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys Conference on Computer Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, Rene Mueller, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Michael Duller, and Gustavo Alonso. Demo: A Dynamic and Flexible Sensor Network Platform. In SIGMOD 07: Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIG- MOD International Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China, Rene Mueller, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Michael Duller, and Gustavo Alonso. Demo: A Generic Platform for Sensor Applications. In MASS 07: Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems, Pisa, Italy, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Gustavo Alonso, and Timothy Roscoe. Demo: Ready for Distribution? Turning Modular into Distributed Applications with the R-OSGi Deployment Tool. In OOP- SLA 07: Proceedings of the 22th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, Montreal, Canada, Jan S. Rellermeyer, Gustavo Alonso, and Timothy Roscoe. R-OSGi: Distributed Applications through Software Modularization. In Middleware 07: 8th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference, Newport Beach, CA, USA,

8 Jan S. Rellermeyer. flowsgi: A Framework For Dynamic Fluid Applications. Master s thesis, ETH Zurich, REFERENCES Gustavo Alonso, Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, alonso@inf.ethz.ch Timothy Roscoe, Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, troscoe@inf.ethz.ch Donald Kossmann, Professor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, donaldk@inf.ethz.ch Additional references can be provided upon request. June 10,